Text size D.R. Horton said its cancellation rate was 24% in the latest quarter. Above, contractors at a D.R. Horton development in Florence, Ariz. Caitlin O’Hara/Bloomberg In its most recent qua...
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Apple and Microsoft Report Earnings Next Week. Can a Fed Rate Hike Top Them?
Text size Earnings from Big Tech are next week. But so is the Federal Reserve’s announcement on interest rates. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Big Tech earnings season will shift into fifth gear next...
Oil Doesn’t Have to Boom for These Companies to Thrive
Oil-and-gas companies aren’t anywhere close to drilling as much as they did in 2014, but some oil-field service companies are squeezing out profit as if they were. Schlumberger said on Friday that its...
Weekend reads: Prepare for a big week — a crucial Federal Reserve decision, tech-company earnings and a GDP report
It was mostly a week for stocks, particularly a rebound in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, as companies topped expectations on second-quarter earnings. The coming week brings a heavy dose of t...
It’s a Bear-Market Rally. Whether it Lasts Depends on the Fed.
Text size This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Powell the Volckerizer? Intraday Strategy Edge Eve...
The Best Tech CEOs: What Matters Most
Text size Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke spent years programming before he co-founded the e-commerce software firm. He has said he knows how long projects will take—and which initiatives to choose—because of ...
My wife inherited a 401(k)–what’s the best way to avoid a big tax hit?
Q.: My wife inherited a 401(k) from my mom who died recently. How do we handle this? If she takes her share out will it count as income for us on our taxes? I read that we can’t roll it over into our ...
It’s the end of ‘fantasyland’ for Big Tech and its workers
After Big Tech grew in unprecedented and unchecked fashion for a decade, building ostentatious palaces to house growing workforces while plying them luxuriant freebies to keep them from defecting to r...
Intuitive Surgical Stock Is Tanking. But Analysts Like the Long-Term Story.
Text size J.P. Morgan calls Intuitive’s da Vinci Xi robotic surgical system first and best in class. Courtesy of Intuitive Surgical Surgical systems manufacturer Intuitive Surgical had a disappo...
Verizon Stock Falls Sharply on Cut to Earnings Guidance
Text size Verizon said wireless revenue growth for the year will be between 8.5% to 9.5%, lower than previous guidance. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications posted second-quarter earning...
Opinion: The cloud boom is coming back to earth, and that could be scary for tech stocks
Cloud computing is widely viewed as a recession-resistant business, but the theory has not really been tested since cloud-service providers have not experienced a major economic downturn since becomin...
AT&T earnings were ‘actually good’ despite stock selloff, says analyst
AT&T Inc.’s shares fell sharply Thursday after the telecommunications giant cut its free-cash-flow forecast for the year, but one analyst said the latest report wasn’t all bad. In fact, LightShed ...
How Amazon’s $3.9 billion wager on primary care could change your Prime membership
Amazon’s AMZN, +1.52% $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical ONEM, +69.45% is the e-commerce giant’s biggest bet on healthcare to date, and it hints at a future in which primary care and streaming op...
Seagate’s Earnings Miss Estimates as Demand for Disk Drives Worsens
Text size A Seagate hard drive from an Apple laptop computer. Demand is weakening in consumer-related markets. Brent Lwein/Bloomberg The disk-drive company Seagate Technology posted sales and profits ...
AT&T stock pulls back from historic drop after earnings
AT&T shares sank Thursday despite an earnings beat in a quarter with a lot of moving parts due to recent business divestments. While the company raised its annual forecast for mobility-service rev...
AT&T’s Dividend Yield Jumps as the Stock Falls After Earnings
Text size AT&T Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T stock is shedding value on Thursday, after a big miss on second-quarter free cash flow and lowered guidance for the remainder of the year. That...
AT&T Stock Drops Despite Adding Subscribers. Here’s Why.
Text size AT&T added more wireless and fiber subscribers than expected, paid down debt, and continued to invest in fiber and 5G. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In its first three months as a telecom...
Here’s the incredibly strong signal for stocks that is coming from the corporate bond market
Is it a false dawn in the stock market or is there something real? The S&P 500 has never lost ground over the following year when advancing volume was at least 85% of volume for two out of three d...
Nokia Boosts Sales as Turnaround Gains Steam
Nokia said it was on track to hit the higher end of its 2022 sales forecast, as sales of its telecommunications equipment rose in North America and its efforts to rebound from the missteps of recent y...
China Fines Ride-Hailing Giant Didi $1.2 Billion, Citing Cybersecurity Breaches
SINGAPORE—Chinese authorities fined ride-hailing company Didi Global the equivalent of about $1.2 billion, bringing an end to a yearlong investigation into the company’s cybersecurity practices. The f...
Palantir stock’s ‘strength will prove unsustainable,’ analyst says in downgrade
Palantir Technologies Inc. shares are up nearly 50% from their May lows, but one analyst worries that “this strength will prove unsustainable.” Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co. analyst Brian White dow...